Physicists Now And Then

The infamous academic specialization creep captured in one perfect doge meme! Historical physicists were absolute units of interdisciplinary knowledge—Newton casually inventing calculus on a Tuesday before diving into biblical prophecies on Wednesday. Meanwhile, modern physicists are so hyper-specialized they might as well be speaking different languages. The right side hits way too close to home for anyone who's ever nodded politely through a colleague's explanation of their research while internally thinking "I understood approximately zero of those words and we supposedly have the same degree." Hyperspecialization: making brilliant people feel completely clueless since approximately 1950.